I Believe I Am An Honorable Man.

...the Very Notion That A Candidate Should Openly Solicit Votes Violated The Principled Presumption That Such Behavior Itself Represented A Confession Of Unworthiness For National Office.

Lincoln Once Said That America Was Founded On A Proposition That Was Written By Jefferson In 1776. We Are Really Founded On An Argument About What That Proposition Means.

Washington's Task Was To Transform The Improbable Into The Inevitable.

Grand Visions, Even Those As Prescient As Washington's, Must Nevertheless Negotiate The Damnable Particularities That History In The Short Run Tosses Up Before History In The Long Run Arrives To Validate The Vision.

And The Only Thing To Do With A Sin Is To Confess, Do Penance And Then, After Some Kind Of Decent Interval, Ask For Forgiveness.